Older People and Housing

These pages contain items that relate specifically to older people and housing. The information is split into 8 main topics:

• Design- resources about design of general housing and extra care provision to meet the needs of older people.
• User involvement - information about involving older people in service development and evaluation.
• BME Groups - how to make housing services responsive to the needs of older people from black & minority ethnic groups.
• Strategy - Policy advice on national, regional and local housing strategies for older people, plus examples of regional/local strategies.
• Provision - policy and examples of types of housing related support including telecare, personal support and workforce/staffing.
• Health & Wellbeing - how to promote the social and mental wellbeing and social inclusion of older people through housing support.
• Personalisation - ways to respond to individual circumstances, including individual budgets, equity based products and dignity.
• Planning - resources that suggest good practice in planning to meet the needs of older populations both through support related to general housing and to more specialized provision

Most Extra Care Housing is designed for older people although there is Extra Care provision for other groups. You will find a lot of information about Extra Care housing (including sheltered housing) for older people on the Extra Care pages -

You will find some material on older people with learning disabilities on the Learning Disability pages

The majority of people experience dementia in old age but it also affects some younger people. You can find information on commissioning & provision of housing and related support for people with dementia on the housing dementia pages. If you are interested in wider issues relating to dementia you can find information on the DH Care Networks Dementia pages